Of course, the idea of SPAG is not new. Ludwig Feuerbach proposed it in the 19th century. But the acronym is DTE's. He and kcrady are the only two residents who ever achieved any kind of notoriety in the world outside of wwgha (unless you count Davedave's invasion of the Reason Project).

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I stopped believing for a little while this morning. Journey is gonna be so pissed when they find out...

He elaborates more on it in later posts like this entire thread. I suggest you peruse his posts there.

Thank you for this. Talk about Christians getting thrown to the lions! DTE was destroying those Christians. Then that John guy chimed in and added insult to injury(not literally, because he was genuinely making valid points and was not trying to insult). I am just amazed how anyone could believe in Christian mythology after reading arguments like that.

Self projection as god, or SPAG for short, is a term coined by a poster named DTE on the atheist forum WhyWontGodHealAmputees in early 2007.[1] The concept itself is not new; the idea that Man creates God in his own image can be traced to Ancient Greece, and was clearly expounded by 19th century atheist philosophers such as Ludwig Feuerbach.[2]

There. Is there anything else you'd like me to do for you? Would you like the sky slightly more blue in your world? I can do that.

Somehow I can't feature DTE in real life as some kind of motivational self-help guru, but who knows.

After leaving the field of theology I recall him saying he was in sales for a while. Then I think he said something about doing public speaking stuff. If you are really interested, you could search his posts in the old forum. www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/forum. The redirect page lets you select old or new forum. Select Old. Then use the search, if it works. I haven't figured out all the rules on how to find stuff or access profiles in the old forum. But occasionally, I do.

The first article on that page is entitled "Shaving God", which is also an essay DTE first posted at ATT. I don't have the link and I'm too lazy to look it up. But I think that adds to the evidence that Skolny = DTE. Does not look anything like I imagined.

Well, this is odd, but not impossible. I did consider the possibility that they were the same person (in post 8 ), but as Graybeard said, the writing styles are very different, and there's a two and a half year gap between the first usages...